Watersheds, recreational uses, and miscellaneous

NOTE: Individual web pages have been
developed in the case of only a handful of issue lakes which include
general info and public concerns, as well as links of relevance. Lakes
in capitals imply availability of bathymetric maps. The emphasis in
most of the following web pages is on nutrient enrichment (due to human
causes), and their potential negative impacts, among other stressors. Varied other data is available but has not been reported in these web pages due to time and other constraints.

Any potential restoration: Emphasis should be on restoring lakes to their pre-cultural (i.e., modelled hindcast) phosphorus concentrations in order to minimize any negative impacts from undue cultural eutrophication. The
models have not been calibrated for highly coloured lakes (DOC
> 10 mg/l) due to humic and fulvic acids. Such lakes may have
relatively high background phosphorus concentrations. In many cases though, it may be uneconomic/impractical to achieve such restoration.

The first ever study in Nova Scotia utilizing the Lake
Evaluation Index (LEI) developed by the USEPA's Corvallis Research Lab-
a superb year-2002 class project of Dalhousie University on Bissett and Russell lakes, Dartmouth

"520-hectare (1,284-acre) development, now just woods and rocks,
will be bordered by Highway 102 and Hammonds Plains Road in the east
and bisected by Kearney Lake Road. It extends west of the old Bedford
town line to Ragged Lake."; September 20, 2002